Blarbuie Woodlands and Scottish Mental Health Film and Arts Festival
This Festival runs from 1st to 24th October, during which time Blarbuie Woodland Enterprise will be hosting and organising a number of richly varied events throughout Argyll and Bute.Insightful poetry...
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A83 Taskforce meets 15th October: this was the hairpin at the Rest today
Scotland Transerv’s job is a good one at the famous hairpin on the old military road at Rest and Be Thankful.The question is whether this will actually be the emergency diversion route for the...
View ArticleWrong-headed political responses to Glasgow City Council Leader’s alleged...
The Leader of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, is said to have been reported to prosecutors by police for allegedly committing a sex act in a public place. This is said to have been in a car park...
View ArticleEasdale Island dump: situation to be resolved by ‘change of use’ application
In the continuing issue of the unauthorised material dumped at the shoreside area of Easdale island known evocatively as the ‘Rush and Gush’, council planners met back in December 2012 with Eilean...
View ArticleMSP supports drive to recruit ‘citizen archaeologists’
Talk about good timing. Today the academic archaeologists and scientists of Leicester University drove sky high the attraction of this particular science by revealing that the skeleton they unearthed...
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A83: contractors put the foot down at Rest and Be Thankful
At around 14.00 today, 21st February, you could see that the contractors working for Transport Scotland have the foot to the board in pushing to complete the conversion of the hardy old military road...
View ArticleDerek Robertson Wildlife Art exhibition and sketching workshop at Taynish
Wildlife artist, Derek Robertson, has an outdoor exhibition at the fabulous Piggery at the Taynish National Nature Reserve in Knapdale, already begun and running to 26th October 2013.This is one of the...
View ArticleA firebrand for the fireworks
The Argyll town with a firework now named for it, is to see a home grown incendiary in charge of this year’s event.The 2013 Obang – for of course the town is Oban – is at 7pm in Mossfield Park Stadium...
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International landslide expert visits A83 Rest and Be Thankful
On Friday morning, 29th November, an international expert in landslides, Dr Mike Winters, visited the A83 at Rest and be Thankful to scrutinise the hillsides.He was accompanied by Mike Story, who...
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New all-abilities walk open at Achnabreac – 10 minutes to the top
Forestry Commission Scotland has now opened a new all-abilities trail in Kilmichael Forest, offering access to stunning scenery and Kilmartin Glen’s famous ‘cup and ring’ marked stones.Steve Williams...
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